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Offline FliesLikeABrick

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Server migration - next week
« on: March 30, 2011, 05:24:30 pm »
Hello all -

About a year back I struck a fantastic money saving deal on a reliable server provider, all towards hosting the likes of The Soldat homepage, lobby, soldat forums, and many other Soldat-related sites. I even travelled to the remote country it was situated in and sealed the deal in person.

Obviously with recent developments, that hasn't worked out as long as I had hoped.


The server is being moved from a temporary datacenter I found in Morocco to one that is faster, cheaper, more stable and easier to reach in case of emergency.

Please watch for any broken sites and post here - or more preferably e-mail me immediately at ryan@u13.net - if you see anything.  Please include the URL you attempted to access in the message.

I will be migrating the forums first.
« Last Edit: April 01, 2011, 06:54:55 pm by Chakra »

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Re: Server migration - next week
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2011, 02:49:18 am »
Are those things then unreachable for while?
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Re: Server migration - next week
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2011, 02:55:44 am »
Basically, things may be inaccessible for a short time as servers switch from main to temporary and back; and keep our eyes open for any errors that may arise from transferring all the data.
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Re: Server migration - next week
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2011, 07:11:31 am »
Everything should be moved now, please let me know if you see any problems.

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Re: Server migration - next week
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2011, 08:15:35 pm »
My avatar got deleted/doesn't show up.

http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php


http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?action=profile;u=355


Edit: While trying to upload a new avatar this message appears:
« Last Edit: March 31, 2011, 08:18:25 pm by Illuminatus »
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Re: Server migration - next week
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2011, 08:18:31 pm »
Same here. Which one of you guys stole it, I know it was one of youooou!... meh... a lot of ppls are missing
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Re: Server migration - next week
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2011, 10:15:46 pm »
Should be all fixed now, and it looks like your avatars are showing up now as well.  Thanks for reporting it.

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Re: Server migration - next week
« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2011, 06:05:17 am »
Hey I had/have the same problem, I posted it here yesterday but decided to wait a bit. So, it's still missing.
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Re: Server migration - next week
« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2011, 08:01:41 am »
Hey I had/have the same problem, I posted it here yesterday but decided to wait a bit. So, it's still missing.
uh?  I see your avatar just fine.

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Re: Server migration - next week
« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2011, 08:03:01 am »
Now I see it too.
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Re: Server migration - next week
« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2011, 11:32:20 am »
Not really a problem, but my avatar doesn't show up on the homepage, but I see it everywhere else on the forums.
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Re: Server migration - next week
« Reply #11 on: April 01, 2011, 11:53:42 am »
Nicely worked out FLAB :)

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Re: Server migration - next week
« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2011, 03:32:14 am »
Hahaha, Chakra the troll. :D (See the first post.)
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Re: Server migration - next week
« Reply #13 on: April 03, 2011, 09:23:26 am »
That post was completely and utterly made of win.

Good to see ol' Chakra still gets his kicks out of the forums....
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Re: Server migration - next week
« Reply #14 on: April 05, 2011, 09:12:52 am »
lol, server in Maroko, but it's working right for me and it's ok  ;)

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Re: Server migration - next week
« Reply #15 on: April 06, 2011, 11:34:45 am »
Lobby server is down for a few hours already.

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Re: Server migration - next week
« Reply #16 on: April 06, 2011, 12:04:15 pm »
Lobby server is down for a few hours already.

Yes there was a migration-related change which has taken it down.  It is back up now.


Status otherwise: the server should be delivered today, I plan to have it in the new datacenter by monday or tuesday.
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Re: Server migration - next week
« Reply #17 on: April 08, 2011, 03:19:56 am »
When trying to open sctfl page:
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Re: Server migration - next week
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Re: Server migration - next week
« Reply #19 on: April 10, 2011, 02:41:21 pm »
The server was originally planned to be installed last night but unfortunately once I received it from the current host I realized that the rails I have aren't the right ones even though I thought they were.  The correct rails are in storage up in NY, so I'll be getting them later this week and installing the server next Saturday hopefully - then migrating services back to it over the next week following that.

Note that after MM's server is all done, I will be moving the other two servers of mine in Chicago one at a time.  In particular I need to figure out what I'm going to do about the game servers and stuff I host on outcry.u13.net.  Do people think it'll be ok if that server is just down without a replacement for a week or so?

I'd appreciate any input on that or ideas so that I can deal with it the best.  What I want to avoid is needing to migrate every game server and stuff off of that server only to need to do it again a week later - that is a lot of work and very prone to error on random crap.